# 1902 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn
* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank
* Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams
* Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis
* Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)
* Bishop of St Davids – John Owen

## Events

* 4 March – Five miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon.
* 1 May – Cardiff Corporation Tramways begins operating its electric system.
* 3 June – Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli.
* 26 June – In the 1902 Coronation Honours, Isambard Owen and Alfred Thomas receive knighthoods.
* 15 July – Francis Grenfell is created 1st Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan.
* 31 July – Opening of the first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.
* 2 August – A. G. Edwards, Bishop of St Davids, is appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Denbighshire Yeomanry.
* August – Opening of the Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic (it opens to passengers on 22 December).
* 11 November – Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash.
* date unknown
** Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea Valley.
** 230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.
** Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.

## Arts and literature
### Awards

* National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Bangor
** Chair – T. Gwynn Jones
** Crown – R. Silyn Roberts

### New books
#### English language

* Rhoda Broughton – Lavinia
* Violet Jacob – The Sheep-stealers
* Arthur Machen – Hieroglyphics
* Allen Raine – A Welsh Witch

#### Welsh language

* Hugh Brython Hughes – Tlysau Ynys Prydain
* Thomas Rowland Roberts – Y Monwyson

### Music

* Sir Henry Walford Davies – Three Jovial Huntsmen

## Sport

* Gymnastics – The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.
* Rugby union – Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.

## Births

* 4 February – Tal Harris, Wales international rugby player (died 1963)
* 25 February – Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician (died 1993)
* 4 March – David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973)
* 19 March – Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979)
* 16 April – Hugh Iorys Hughes, civil engineer (died 1977 in England)
* 22 April – Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966)
* 18 June – Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963)
* 17 July – Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU (died 1984)
* 2 September – Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist (died 1979)
* 21 September – E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972)
* 27 October (in Oxford) – Harold Arthur Harris, academic (died 1974)
* 26 November (in Wales or Bristol) – Cyril Bence, academic and politician (died 1992)
* date unknown – Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)

## Deaths

* 1 January – William McConnel, industrialist, 93
* 11 January – James James, harpist and composer, 69
* 19 February – Jeremiah Jones, poet, 46
* 6 March – William Rathbone, politician, 82
* 11 March – Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73
* 6 April – Robert Owen, theologian, 81
* 5 June – Arthur Powell Davies, English-born American minister, author, and activist of Welsh parentage (d. 1957)
* 13 July – Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)
* 14 July – Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37
* 23 August – Robert Henry Davies, colonial official in British India, 78
* 5 October – Henry Lascelles Carr, journalist
* 18 October – Margaret Jones, travel writer (Y Gymraes o Ganaan), 60
* 17 November – Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55
* December – Thomas Davies, footballer, 36/37
* date unknown – Jones Hewson, singer and actor, 27